Camille Rankine is the author of Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's 2010 New York Chapbook Fellowship. The recipient of a 2010 "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poet, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, DIAGRAM, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is the Assistant Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville College.